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A COINCIDENCE? The Ontario .Liberal leader is Nixon. The
Tory “hopeless”, who is running against Wm. Stewart in Dover-
court riding, is also Nixon. It has not been established that they
are related to U.S. President Tricky Dick Nixon — except in their

politics.
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LABOR

I built your ships and I sailed them,

I worked in your mills and your mines,
I sweat o’er your network of railroads,
I crushed the ripe grapes for your wine.

I toiled weaving cloth for your garments,
I gathered the grain for your bread,

My hands made your beautiful mansions,
I printed the books you have read.

I linked two great oceans together,

I spanned your rivers with steel,
Faced death in your lofty skyscrapers,
I built your automobiles.

I harnessed the mad rush of waters,
And caged lightning bolts for your play,
I made your words leap over distance,

I lighted your nights into day.

Wherever there’s progress, you'll find me,
Without me the world could not live,
And yet you would seek to destroy me,
With the pittance that you give.

Today you may-grind me in slavery,

You may dictate to me from your throne;
But tomorrow I’ll throw off the fetters
And stand forth to claim what I own.

You masters of field and of workshop,

I am mighty and you are few,

No longer I’ll bow in submission —

1 AM LABOR, AND ASK FOR MY DUE!!!

—UMW Journal

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A FRIEND who recently returned from one of those delightful
Caribbean cruises on the S.S. Pushkin, still chortles over an ad she
read in The Royal Gazette while she stopped over in Bermuda.
You and I have often wanted to voice our frustration over one
thing or another in some such way, but this Burmudan lady
actually did it. Here’s the ad:

In memory of my dead telephone
My apologies to my family and
friends who may have been trying

to reach me. My telephone passed
away on July 3, 1971 and it seems
the Bermuda Telephone Co. cannot
revive it.

WALKING past a telegraph office an elderly gentleman was star-
tled to see a young messenger boy rush out, take a flying leap in
the air with legs spread wide apart—and then fall into the gutter.

“Dear me,” sympathized the old fellow, “did you hurt yourself?”

“No,” was the grim reply, “but I’d sure like to get my hands on
the guy who moved my bicycle!”

BILL BEECHING sends the following quip from Saskatchewan.
It appears that the Tisdale Chamber of Commerce was wont to
boost its district with the slogan “Land of rape and honey” in view
of the main products of the area—rape (isn’t it also known as
Swedish turnip?) and the sweet stuff collected by the busy little
bees.

However, now that the Bertha army worm has appeared and is
doing damage, the sksgan is amended to read: “Land of honey and
bertha contre”.

AS TRUE TODAY as it was in 1939 when he wrote it, is the
comment by Heywood Broun, founder of the Newspaper Guild that
‘“Jabor-saving devices should literally be a means to shorten that
working day and halve the toil of the producers rather than demons
of destruction which put millions on relief or breadlines.”

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BODY COUNTS: The Pentagon measures progress in Indochina
by how many people are killed. The White House measures prog-
ress in its economic policy by how many workers are laid off.
PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1971—PAGE 8

“4 thank you for your support!”

Developer's lament

‘Oh, my bleeding heart .-’

I am a developer. My con-
cern is for people. That is —
people with money. I want to
erect tall buildings to give jobs
to the working class; however
it is necessary that the density
requirements play a calculated
role in the number of jobs.

For each 3 points increase in
density, we will add one worker
to the construction team, which
should reduce the time of con-
struction by several months.

My concern also is to build
one- or two-bedroom §$apart-
ments because this is better for
people. That is—people with
money. Now it is true, I might
make a little more profit by this
arrangement, but Canada is a
big country, largely underdevel-
oped. Our sympathetic concern
is for single adults between the
ages of 28 to 29 based on the
average of Canadians. That is—
Canadians with money.

The rents we charge are fair,
reasonable, delightful and easy
to count.

Our expenses are tremedous.
The cost of one unit of what
very viciously, maliciously, and
unjustly has been called pigeon-
holes, tombs and other nasty
names, is one year’s rent, taking
into consideration zoning, den-
sity, friends in City Hall, etc.,
and to a lesser degree our ori-
ginal sources of the money in
the first place.

We have been criticized by
protesters and other undesir-

ables, for not building family
units. Families should not live
in urban areas. Everybody
knows rural areas are better.
Children love tents, cabins, and
backwood shacks. They usually
don’t have any money, but they
should have their rights—and if
children want to live under
these conditions, this should be

allowed.

Further, children do not like
nurseries — therefore building
these in urban areas is ridicu-
lous.

As mentioned above, Canada
is a big piece of real estate.
Children need parks. There is
plenty of room on the Prairies
for children to romp, skip, and
run, while singing their joyful
songs. Fewer hospitals will be
required when the children
breathe good Prairie air.

A developer cannot make
money in a hospital. Everybody
knows that. Developers have
rights also: to free speech,
sports—and money. The sport
of manoeuvering in land specul-
ation with tricky mortgages
keeps one right on the ball. The
fine print of contracts keeps our
minds alert, usually resulting in
more money. .Wonderful sports.
They make chess look like tid-
dlywinks.

Developers try very -hard to
keep abreast of the times. In
this age of technological and
monetary advances, all develop-
ers must cooperate. The little
profits we make on our hard-

cate al
earned money must ie cont
used. Buying resources 4. J
of companies, dire

tial ©;
banks and other essen es {es

keting, with of course & 10
tiful structures, brine tl

pathetic developers
Looking to the ue ys 7
portion of our prom 1p Py
hesitatingly 2%, wil test’
in the production
babies whom wé P grow
ship to the Prairies ‘evel 4
be fattened until the pot M4
age of 28 to 29, wherer in a
may be invited into u ove
and will definitely b@ 4 jd
become tenants in 0
provided they have ¢ end
I regret having
letter collect as thé ai
was wunable to give vot
when I went to P
stamp. eat ash

Gun-crazy U: iy

Twenty-four

carbines are in P' ine
private persons 1?
States. op!

More than 50,000 pe i
from firearms in thé f
past five years.

ctors He

million tf ,
35 million rifles an sae it ‘